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Researching Rome: Bibliography

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Additional Bibliography

Angelaccio, M., & Zappitelli, L. (2018). Cultural Metro in Rome: A Sustainable Transportation Example Extending Public Transportation System in Rome. 8–10.

Antimo Luigi Farro & Simone Maddanu. (2017). Public School and Madrasas. Parallel Circles of Sociability and Neighborhood Life. Scuola democratica, 3, 607–626. https://doi.org/10.12828/88618

Barni, M., & Bagna, C. (2008). Immigrant languages in Italy. Multilingual Europe: facts and policies, 2008, 293-313.

Bartolini, F. (2017). Naming Rome’s Edge: Cultural and Political Representations of the Borgata. In R. Harris & C. Vorms (Eds.), What’s in a Name? Talking about Urban Peripheries (pp. 192–208). University of Toronto Press. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442620643-011/pdf?licenseType=restricted

Berdini, P. (2010). Rome: The inevitable decline of a centre with no rules. Rivista Di Scienze Del Turismo-Ambiente Cultura Diritto Economia, 1(2), 317–330.

Bialasiewicz, L., & Haynes, W. (2019). Charity, hospitality, tolerance? Religious organisations and the changing vocabularies of migrant assistance in Rome. In Spaces of Tolerance (pp. 197–220). Routledge.

Brignone, L., Cellamare, C., Gissara, M., Montillo, F., Olcuire, S., & Simoncini, S. (2022). Social Innovation or Societal Change? Rethinking Innovation in Bottom-Up Transformation Processes Starting from Three Cases in Rome’s Suburbs. In F. Calabrò, L. Della Spina, & M. J. Piñeira Mantiñán (Eds.), New Metropolitan Perspectives (Vol. 482, pp. 483–493). Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-06825-6_45

Cacciotti, C. (2021). When diversity becomes a resource: Managing alterity and everyday cosmopolitanisms in Carlo Pisacane, a primary school in Rome. Critique of Anthropology, 41(4), 374–388. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X211059654

Cacciotti, C. (2023). Racializing the concept of ‘housing otherness’: The effects of temporary housing policies on squatters in Rome. Radical Housing Journal, 5(1), 165–183. https://doi.org/10.54825/CWVF5288

Cacciotti, C. (2024). Inhabiting Liminality: The Temporal, Spatial and Experiential Assemblage of Emancipatory Practices in the Lives of Housing Squatters in Rome, Italy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 48(1), 145–160. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13225

Cacciotti, C., & Brignone, L. (2018). Self-Organization in Rome: A map. Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare Di Studi Urbani, 3. https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562_2.3.14281

Calaresu, M., & Selmini, R. (2017). Italy: Policing and urban control in Rome and Milan: A view from the southern edge of Europe. In E. Devroe, A. Edwards, & P. Ponsaers (Eds.), Policing European Metropolises. Routledge.

Casaglia, A., & Coletti, R. (2021). Territorializing threats in nationalist populist narratives: An Italian perspective on the migration and Covid-19 crises. Space and Polity, 0(0), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2021.1991783

Celata, F., & Coletti, R. (2018). The policing of community gardening in Rome. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 29, 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2017.09.002

Cellammare, C. (2017). Trasformation of the “urban” in Rome’s post metropolitan cityscape. In A. Balducci, V. Fedeli, & F. Curci (Eds.), Post-Metropolitan Territories: Looking for a New Urbanity (pp. 117–137). Taylor & Francis.

Certomà€, C. (2016). ‘A new season for planning’: Urban gardening as informal planning in Rome. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 98(2), 109-126. doi:10.1111/geob.12094

Cheramie, K., & Michelis, A. D. (2020). Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315661650

Cremaschi, M. (2016). Contemporary debates on public space in Rome. In J. Gadeyne & G. Smith (Eds.), Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day (1–1 online resource (435 pages), pp. 331–350). Taylor and Francis. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4512024

Cremaschi, M., & Fioretti, M. C. (2016). Diversity and interculturalism, a critique and a defence. Going through multiethnic neighbourhoods in Rome. In M. Balbo (Ed.), The Intercultural City: Exploring an Elusive Idea (pp. 109–121). I. B. Tauris. https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-02287377

Cristaldi, F. (2002). Multiethnic Rome: toward residential segregation?GeoJournal, 58(2-3), 81-90.

Farro, A. L., & Maddanu, S. (2019). Occupying the city: From social housing to the theatre. In E. Colombo & P. Rebughini (Eds.), Youth and the politics of the present: Coping with complexity and ambivalence (pp. 141–152). Routledge.

Fioretti, C. (2011b). Do-it-yourself housing for immigrants in Rome: Simple reaction or possible way out. The Ethnically Diverse City, Future Urban Research Series, 4. https://www.academia.edu/download/34582923/Fioretti_Do-it-yourself_housing.pdf

Gesuelli, F. (2018). Precarious lives, practices and spaces: An investigation into homelessness and alternative uses of public space [PhD Thesis]. University of Edinburgh.

Ivasiuc, A. (2020). The ‘Gypsy’ Police: The Social Division of Police Labor in Rome. Exertions: Society for the Anthropology of Work.

Levy, H., & Diamanti, E. (2023). Spray without politics? Contrasting street-based perceptions and computer vision framings of graffitied Rome. Convergence, 29(3), 766–784. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231155076

Litardi, I., & Pastore, L. (2019). Does Public Art Matter? A Socratic Exploration. In Art and economics in the city: New cultural maps (pp. 15–36). Transcript Verlag. https://boa.unimib.it/bitstream/10281/423121/1/Pastore-2019-Art%20Economics%20City-VoR.pdf

Litardi, I., Pastore, L., & Trimarchi, M. (2016). Culture and the city. Public action and social participation in Rome’s experience. Journal of Business and Economics, 7(7), 1168–1181.

Maestri, G., & Vitale, T. (2017). Architecture and the social sciences : Inter- and multidisciplinary approaches between society and space. In A sociology of the camps’ persisting architecture. why did Rome not put an end to expensive ethnic housing policies? (pp. 197-218).Cham : Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53477-0_1

Piazzoni, F. (2024). Visibility as Justice: Immigrant Street Vendors and the Right to Difference in Rome. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 44(1), 194–209. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X20956387

Selmini, R. (2016). Ethnic conflicts and riots in Italy: The case of Rome, 2014. European Journal of Criminology, 13(5), 626–638. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370816636903

Simone, A., & Coletti, R. (2023). Rome solidarity city: The Covid-19 and the transformation of collective action. Annali del Dipartimento di metodi e modelli per l’economia. https://doi.org/10.13133/2611-6634/1461

Vitali, G. P. (2018). Rethinking Rome as an Anthology: The Poeti der Trullo’s Street Poetry. Umanistica Digitale, 3. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/8161